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  • The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back

    09/05/2013 7:24:25 PM PDT · by shego · 17 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 9/5/13 | Bruce Schneier
    Government and industry have betrayed the internet, and us. By subverting the internet at every level to make it a vast, multi-layered and robust surveillance platform, the NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. The companies that build and manage our internet infrastructure, the companies that create and sell us our hardware and software, or the companies that host our data: we can no longer trust them to be ethical internet stewards. This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community....